Boxman wrote:
Yeah, those 83 weeks that WCW dominated WWF (With NWO as a main focus) was just a short run for them...

They may have been part of the end of WCW, but 1996-2001 isn't exactly a short run of success.
um when you go out of business because you lost 68 million dollars in 2000 and 15 in 1999 that is not successful.
so yeah 1996-1998 was very successful. I don't deny that, even though the early business success of the stable is a little over estimated they werer still successful. The problem is when you look beyond that They ran over everyone so by the time people were getting bored with them you had no heros to slay them, Giant, Luger, Steiners, Flair, Horsemen, everyone had been defeated and basically left useless because of the way they were booked and used. Also in doing so that huge build up to Sting vs. Hogan led to the problem that once Sting got past Hogan and that awful non-finish finish at Starrcade 97 Sting was basically standing their with his ass exposed because throughout that Build up to Hogan vs. Sting they forgot to build up heels to have Sting wrestle.
The problem with the NWO is once you got past the bullshit there wasn't much there as a whole the whole storyline of taking over the company was never really utilized, the who's going to join the NWO got old real quick, They burned out The Wolfpac split and put people in spots theys houldn't have been in, and by the time you do the Finger Poke of Doom and NWO 2000 groups the fans just didn't care anymore. Its great they had a run but if you go back and watch the Hart Foundation angles in WWF at the time they were much more entertaining as a whole